Rules demand pesticide companies to deliver dossiers with safety tests and to fulfil all data requirements in the application for their pesticide. However Member States and Health DG SANCO allow data gaps on a massive scale while assessing pesticides. Around 50 pesticides should be banned in 2008 because of the many data gaps present and the many risks shown, but these 50 and the companies behind them got a second chance in an invention called “ResubSUMMARY mission”. The substance was “voluntarily withdrawn” but could stay on the market many years during a second assessment. More companies joined Resubmission applying in the end for a total of 87 substances. Data gaps however in many cases were not filled by data but whitewashed by a next invention of SANCO and Member States called “confirmatory data”. This invention allows pesticide companies to deliver new tests or arguments in a later phase while the pesticide already gets the green light.